Uma Pedra no Sapato

A stone in the shoe will make you come to.

Ashore

by Leonor Teles

Ashore portrays the life of a singular fisherman in an ancient riverfront community near Lisbon. Divided between the quiet solitude of the river
and the family ties that wash him ashore, the film follows Albertino
Lobo, as nature renews itself with each season cycle.

Djon Africa

by Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra

Miguel Moreira, also known as Tibars, also known as Djon África, learns that genetics can be cruel when his physiognomy - as well as some of his strong personality traits - denounce him, straightaway, as his father’s son; someone he has never known.This intriguing discovery leads him to try to find out who this man is. All he knows about him is what his grandmother, with whom he has always lived, has told him.
A raving curiosity makes him decide to go look for him. Following the journey of John Tibars to meet his father we will also encounter the territory of the dream that haunts memories, desires or mythologies of a good part of those who maintain their cultural roots and the genesis of their identity in the African continent. Tibars lives two identities in conflict and at the same time in harmony. What’s living in a ghetto in Portugal and being an African without being it? This ambivalence finds a projection of a lifetime in this adventure. Africa appears here with a whole load of imagination, in the projection not only of the place, but also of its essence, of its belonging.

Screenings

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM 2018 I “Hivos Tiger” International Competition I Rotterdam, NETHERLANDSNEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS 2018 I Lincoln Center Film Society and The Museum of Modern Art I New York, USA SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2018 I First Films International Competition I San
Francisco, USA FESTIVAL CINEMATOGRÁFICO INTERNACIONAL DEL URUGUAY 2018 I Feature Films International Competition I Montevideo, URUGUAY
BAFICI FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE INDEPENDIENTE 2018 I Section “Entities and Characters” I Buenos Aires,
ARGENTINA
CURAÇAO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM 2018 I Official Programme I Willemstad, CURAÇAO
FRAMES OF REPRESENTATION, NEW VISIONS FOR DOCUMENTARY FILM 2018 at Institute of Comtemporary Arts
(ICA) I Section “Islanders” I London, UK OLHAR DE CINEMA FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA 2018 I Opening Film I Curitiba, BRAZIL
OSLO PIX 2018 I Section “Discovery Pix Perler” I Oslo, NORWAY KINO OTOK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2018 I Section “Art Kino Odeon” I Isola, SLOVENIA FILMFEST MUNCHEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2018 I Section “International Independents” I Munich, GERMANY FESTIVAL DE CINEMA ENTRE A CHINA E OS PAÍSES DE LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA at CINEMATECA PAIXÃO 2018 I Official Programme I Macao, CHINA
ROFFA MON AMOUR FILM FESTIVAL 2018 I "New Directors" I Rotterdam, NETHERLANDS TRANSATLANTIK FESTIVAL 2018 I Official Programme I Poznań, POLAND MAINE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2018 I Feature Films Competition I Maine, USA NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2018 I Secção “World” I Auckland, NEW ZEALANDDURBAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2018 I Feature Film Competition I Durban,SOUTH AFRICA JERUSALEM FILM FESTIVAL 2018 I Panorama Section I Jerusalém, ISRAEL
MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2018 I International Competition I Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
ANONIMUL FESTIVALUL INTERNATIONAL DE FILM INDEPENDENT 2018 I Feature Film Competition I Bucharest,
ROMANIAKUGOMA FÓRUM CINEMA MOÇAMBIQUE 2018 I Opening Film I Maputo, MOZAMBIQUE
AFI LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL 2018 I Official Selection I Washington DC, EUAAFRIKA FILM FESTIVAL COLOGNE 2018 I New Films I Cologne, GERMANYCALGARY INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL 2018 I Alberta, CANADACPH PIX 2018
I New World Views I Copenhagen, DENMARK
VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2018 I Panorama: Contemporary World
Cinema I Vancouver, CANADASEMINCI CINE DE AUTOR VALLADOLID INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2018 I Official Selection I Valladolid, SPAINAFRICAN IN MOTION FILM FESTIVAL 2018 I Edinburgh, SCOTLAND
AFRICAN CULTURE AND FILM FESTIVAL 2018 I Hamburg, GERMANYCINE ATLÂNTICO CINEMA PORTUGUÊS DO SÉCULO XXI I Terceira (Azores), PORTUGALPLATEAU - FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA | Opening Film | Praia, Cape Verde

The Case of J.

by José Filipe Costa

A courtroom is a theatre and a death may be staged. Two policemen are accused in a court
of law of the unlawful murder of J. J.’s mother
is questioned by the police officers’ defense
attorney, to determine who her son was: was
he really who he is said to have been? Found
beside his body is a gun and drugs.

Batrachian's Ballad

by Leonor Teles

“Simultaneously
strange and familiar, distant and near, disquieting and seductive, outsider and
cosmopolitan, Gypsies are shrouded in an aura of ambiguity. They cannot be said
to be invisible, as they hardly go unnoticed.”

Daniel Seabra Lopes in Deriva Cigana, 2008

Like the Gypsies, ceramic frogs don't go unnoticed to a careful observer.
Batrachian's Ballad comes about in a context of ambiguity. A film that
intervenes in the reality of Portuguese everyday life, as a form of fabling
about a xenophobic behaviour.

The Indispensible Practice of Vagueness

by Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra

“To beget something new through things which aren’t exactly new.”

Manuel Castro Caldas

Ar.Co embodies each person’s geography, it escapes normalisation. Each individual’s experience is his own. This film is my experience, our experience. Pieced together from the school’s archive, from recordings of classes by Manuel Castro Caldas and from conversations at home.

Trading Cities

by Luísa Homem and Pedro Pinho

In 2008, the growing tourism industry of Cape Verde was frozen. The building of many hotels and resorts by foreigner companies had to be stopped due to a shortage of sand. The sand industry, primary resource for the production of concrete, had reached a dramatic level, endangering the beaches. This event caused a huge euphoria among the businessmen of Mauritania. A great number of trucks started to flow to the Nouakchott port, where many boats sail out to feed the tourist constructions in Cape Verde. Trading Cities starts in Lisbon on a cargo ship. We will undertake an Atlantic route that re‐enacts these daily travels, in order to highlight the physical and social transformations in the landscape that these exchanges produce.